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CITY LIFE MAGAZINE N.14
Una Smart Grid
per la città di Roma
Gianluca Fulli*
Gianluca Flego*
Alessandro Setti*
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A Smart Grid
for the city of Rome
e Smart Grid rappresentano un elemento
cardine per lo sviluppo delle Smart City
e promettono di cambiare drasticamente
la maniera in cui l’energia elettrica viene
generata, scambiata e commercializzata.
Ormai da tempo, il Joint Research Centre
(JRC) della Commissione Europea osserva,
simula e valuta gli sviluppi delle Smart Grids
in Europa con nuove metodologie, software
integrati e laboratori dedicati. Come riportato
in un precedente lavoro del JRC (“Smart
Grids Project Outlook 2014”, www.ses.
jrc.ec.europa.eu/smart-grids-observatory),
gli investimenti in Smart Grid sono molto
aumentati negli ultimi dieci anni, superando
i 3 miliardi di euro sul solo territorio europeo
con oltre 450 progetti tra ricerca, sviluppo,
dimostrazione e diffusione. Tuttavia, alcune
questioni fondamentali restano irrisolte: vale
la pena di investire in Smart Grids? Esiste
un business case per sviluppare le soluzioni
Smart Grid (testate a livello locale) in città più
ampie? Quanto beneficerebbero i cittadini da
tale innovazione?
Coerentemente con la propria missione di
sostegno scientifico per le decisioni politiche,
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mart grids represent a key element in the
development of Smart Cities and promise
to drastically change the way electricity is
generated, e xchanged and traded.
The Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission has for long observed, simulated
and evaluated the developments of smart
grids in Europe with new methodologies,
embedded software e dedicated laboratories.
As reported in a previous work from the
JRC “Smart Grids Project Outlook 2014”
(http://ses.jrc.ec.europa.eu/smart-gridsobservatory), investments in Smart Grids
have increased much in the last 10 years,
exceeding €3 billion in Europe alone with over
450 projects among research, development,
demonstration and diffusion.
However, key questions remain to be
answered: is investing in Smart Grids worth
the cost? Is there a business case for scaling
up locally tested Smart Grid solutions to
wider cities? To what extent can citizens
benefit from such innovation?
Consistent with its mission of providing
science-based support to policy makers, the
JRC has developed a reference methodology
Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy and Transport, European Commission